As far as I know, yes, that is what is happening. And out of all of this, if you're someone who plays WoW regularly, you are suffering pretty much not at all, so I can understand a lot of people not having beef.

I dont play WoW.

I mean, the outcome of this game will not effect me at all. Considering the fact that there are still copies of D2 BAttle Chest being sold at my Local GameStop. If D3 Is awful, I will just play D2.

It's not that DIABLO will cost money, but the battle.net account will, and you'll need one to play online.

Battle.net acounts are free. You need one to play starcraft 2 online, you get one for free and when activating the product code you bind it to your battle.net acount. You do not have to add monthly time to it to play.

When I ment FTP I ment that once you bought the game you can play it free online should have clarify that.

Anyways on to why it will not be as good as Diablo 2.

No skill leveling. The tree list is all gone and you gain new abilites via levels and not putting points in trees so you that demon hunter your playing with will have the same skills as you do there will be no variation.

Game has been effectively turned into a Pay to Win game.

Also good luck using the Auction House anyways, they make you pay to put up items, they take a percentage of the money you get from selling the item and then if you want to transfer the money to your bank account they hit you again.

That is if you sell the item as Blizzards AH is always plagued by assholes who under sale the item and when it expires you get no refund so effectively you lose money.

Congratulations welcome to the world of Activision Blizzard where you get fucked by em, save your money and buy Torchlight 2 the people who actually made Diablo 2.

Because NO ONE from Diablo 2 is working on Diablo 3.

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That being said, I'm unsure if they're actually going to implement it. If they don't, fuck yeah, I'm pumped about Diablo 3 again. If they do, I return to my state of Meh.

Huh, I hadn't heard of them potentially making battle.net accounts "pay to use", if that was the case, I not only would not get D3, I'd probably stop playing their other games too. I dunno though, I might talk myself into it if it were cheaper than what WoW currently is though. (I partially stopped playing WoW because it's PTP.)

No skill leveling. The tree list is all gone and you gain new abilites via levels and not putting points in trees so you that demon hunter your playing with will have the same skills as you do there will be no variation.

According to their forum's Q&A There are still skill points to distribute, as well as "Traits" which are passive buffs to further specialize your character. The only thing that's automatically distributed now are the attributes, because really, why would you even allow a character to pump their stats into worthless areas? I'm glad I no longer have to look up the "perfect build" to let my character just have the perfect amount of a stat to wear a piece of armor and still pump the rest into their "main" stat. Everyone almost always ended up with the same stats anyways, it was just a chore to go look up exactly what you needed.

Also good luck using the Auction House anyways, they make you pay to put up items, they take a percentage of the money you get from selling the item and then if you want to transfer the money to your bank account they hit you again.

I've heard other people mention that, but I haven't been able to find anything offical stating it, if this ends up being the case, then I just wouldn't use it, except to maybe "liquidate" my characters once I'm done playing.